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I can't die but once. — Harriet Tubman · Smartyfair

I can't die but once.

Harriet Tubman1822–1913 · activist · 1800s-1900s USAHarriet Tubman escaped slavery and then risked her life again and again, returning to the South to guide dozens of other enslaved people to freedom along a secret network called the Underground Railroad.2 quotes

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She decided fear was not going to run her life.

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What turned up: Harriet, the Moses of Her People (Sarah H. Bradford, 1886).
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